New Releases by Connie Willis

Theodora Baumgarten has just been selected as an IASA space cadet, and therein lies the problem. She didn''t apply for the ultra-coveted posting, and doesn''t relish spending years aboard the ship to which she''s been assigned. But the plucky young heroine, in true Heinlein fashion, has no plans to go along with the program. Aided by her hacker best friend Kimkim, in a screwball comedy that has become Connie Wills'' hallmark, Theodora will stop at nothing to uncover the conspiracy that has her shanghaied.

Inside Job is a tale of spiritualists, seances, skeptics, and a love that just might be able to rise about it all.

Au XXIe siècle, le professeur Dunworthy dirige une équipe d''historiens qui utilisent des transmetteurs temporels pour voyager dans le temps. Ned Henry, l''un deux, effectue ainsi d''incessantes navettes vers le passé pour récolter un maximum d''informations sur la cathédrale de Coventry, détruite par un raid aérien nazi. Or c''est à ce même Henry, épuisé par ses voyages et passablement déphasé, que Dunworthy confie la tâche de corriger un paradoxe temporel provoqué par une de ses collègues, qui a sauvé un chat de la noyade en 1888 et l''a ramené par inadvertance avec elle dans le futur. Or l''incongruité de la rencontre de ce matou voyageur avec un chien victorien pourrait bien remettre en cause... la survie de l''humanité !

From Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, comes a comedic romp through an unpredictable world of mystery, love, and time travel . . . Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest. He’s been shuttling between the 21st century and the 1940s searching for a Victorian atrocity called the bishop''s bird stump. It’s part of a project to restore the famed Coventry Cathedral, destroyed in a Nazi air raid over a hundred years earlier. But then Verity Kindle, a fellow time traveler, inadvertently brings back something from the past. Now Ned must jump back to the Victorian era to help Verity put things right—not only to save the project but to prevent altering history itself.

It has been fifteen years since Delanna Milleflores set foot on Keramos. Now her mother has died, and she has returned only to settle and sell her estate. But Keramos has some surprising laws. To sell her farm, Delanna must first live on it for one year. And along with her land comes one Tarlton Tanner, heir to the adjoining farm. A man who, at the moment of her mother''s death, became Delanna''s husband...

Ned Henry is sent back in time to the 19th century to obtain the original plans of Coventry Cathedral, destroyed by the Nazis in World War II. A rich American wants to rebuild it. Problems arise when Henry''s lady friend saves a cat from drowning, an act that threatens to alter history. By the author of Doomsday Book.

Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit. “A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin—barely of age herself—finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history’s darkest hours.

Deza impersonates a witch who could control the water supply of the desert planet, Mahali, in order to deceive its rulers and become rich, but the deception backfires

Typescript of unpublished first novel. Accompanied by typescript of revision and one photocopy of same revision.